Painting Monets

The concept for this entry comes from a presentation by
Jeffrey Runge.While practicing a talk
at GMRI in front of a small audience, Jeff brought up an interesting analogy
for modeling.He explained that modeling
is like impressionistic painting.

There are many ways to interpret the past and the
future.Models (whether ecosystem,
population dynamics, or couple natural and human interactions) are an attempt
to portray past time periods and predict future ones.Jeff describes models with, "Their predictions
will not be precise, but more like impressions, but with enough information to
discern whether the future state is like a sunny day on the seascoast or a
smoggy day in an industrial harbor."I
thought it was a very cool way of describing what a lot of us are working
toward.Beautiful!